The AD FS configuration database stores all the configuration data that represents a single instance of AD FS 2.0 (also known as the Federation Service). You can store this configuration data in either a Microsoft SQL Server® database or using the Windows Internal Database. The Windows Internal Database...

Each week I will be selecting an article from the TechNet Wiki . I will be looking for articles I think are interesting and relevant to the issues around us. Windows 7 deployment conversations are at an all time high right now. With the Office 2010 launch just around the corner, the...

The Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) video series is designed to help IT professionals wishing to learn more about the administrative and management tasks in MED-V. This series provides step-by-step guidance around common tasks that would be performed by IT professionals to deploy...

Hyper-V security is based on Authorization Manager API (known as AZMan). Similarly to VMM’s delegated administration model, an administrator can configure a set of role objects and assign Active Directory user and group accounts to those roles. Each role can be granted a set of permissions for virtual...

Here’s this weeks pick from the content on the TechNet Wiki. It’s an article written by Tom on DirectAccess, IPv6, Teredo and other technologies that resulted from an investigation on performance with Outlook. I thought the article had the right technical depth and you would find it interesting...

Tom Shinder is a highly respected subject matter expert on networking, security and a variety of products that fall into those categories. Tom joined Microsoft not long ago and I spotted one of his articles on the new TechNet Wiki . Here’s an excerpt: DirectAccess by default enables split...